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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A piece of music played at the end of a recital responding to the audiences enthusiastic reaction to the performance - shown by continuous applause.
Cantata
Encore
Ostinato
Glissando
2. A string of chords played in succession.
Chord progression
Tempo
String Quartet
Coda
3. A style of singing which is characterized by the easy and flowing tone of the composition.
Clef
Pastoral
Orchestra
Cantabile
4. A complex piece of music. Usually the first movement of the piece serving as the exposition - a development - or recapitulation.
Medley
Choir
Homophony
Sonata form
5. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Staccato
Courante
Choir
Portamento
6. A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone.
Beat
Soprano
Temperament
Sharp
7. Tones used to embellish the principal melodic tone.
Scale
Voice
Chord progression
Ornaments
8. A symbol used in musical notation indicating to gradually quicken tempo.
Measure
Triple time
Accelerando
Fourth
9. A composition written for three to six voices. Beginning with the exposition - each voice enters at different times - creating counterpoint with one another.
Part
Canon
Fugue
Movement
10. Tones used to embellish the principal melodic tone.
Virtuoso
Relative major and minor
Ornaments
Sextet
11. Movement in music where the characteristics are crisp and direct.
Neoclassical
Ricercar
Pitch
Hymn
12. The playing or singing the upper half of the vocal range. Also the highest voice in choral singing.
Notation
Castrato
Rubato
Treble
13. Ability to determine the pitch of a note as it relates to the notes that precede and follow it.
Relative major and minor
Relative pitch
Instrumentation
Round
14. Elaborate polyphonic composition of the Boroque and Renaissance periods.
Ricercar
Classicism
Klangfarbenmelodie
Atonal
15. String instruments that are picked instead of bowed.
Rubato
Cadenza
Pizzicato
Chant
16. Pertaining to the sonata form - a fast movement in triple time.
Rondo
Whole note
Scherzo
Hymn
17. A group of 4 instruments - two violins - a viola - and cello.
EnharmonicInterval
Interval
Oratorio
String Quartet
18. The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to produce an usual tone color.
Interval
Scordatura
Forte
Resonance
19. One or more vocalists performing without an accompaniment.
Energico
Grazioso
A cappella
Libretto
20. A short piece originally preceded by a more substantial work - also an orchestral introduction to opera - however not lengthy enough to be considered an overture.
Grandioso
Tessitura
Prelude
Motif
21. The first violin in an orchestra.
Gavotte
Serenade
Verismo
Concert master
22. Singing in unison - texts in a free rhythm. Similar to the rhythm of speech.
Tonic
Chant
Relative pitch
Instrumentation
23. Originally an improvised cadence by a soloist. Later it became a written out passage to display performance skills of an instrumentalist or performer.
Cadenza
Root
Cantata
Finale
24. A set of six musicians who perform a composition written for six parts.
Pentatonic Scale
Concerto
Sextet
Scordatura
25. The first tone of a scale also known as a keynote.
Sonatina
Accelerando
Tonic
Quintet
26. Pertaining to the sonata form - a fast movement in triple time.
Minor
Scherzo
Portamento
Vibrato
27. Group of singers in a chorus.
Minuet
Choir
Cadence
Modulation
28. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Sequence
Septet
Stretto
Whole-tone scale
29. Convenient method of numbering a composer's works where a number follows the word 'opus'.For example - Opus 28 - No. 4.
Opus
Rigaudon
Octet
Carol
30. Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist.
Deceptive cadence
Flat
Tutti
Maestro
31. Three notes played in the same amount of time as one or two beats.
Suite
March
Triplet
Sextet
32. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Whole-tone scale
Falsetto
Register
Classical
33. The opening section of a piece of music or movement.
Introduction
Resonance
Recitative
Rubato
34. To shift to another key.
Tritone
Notation
Modulation
Suite
35. Originally an improvised cadence by a soloist. Later it became a written out passage to display performance skills of an instrumentalist or performer.
Cadenza
Beat
Relative pitch
Classical
36. A piece of music written for two vocalists or instrumentalists.
Duet
Clef
Natural
Recital
37. The study of forms - history - science - and methods of music.
Musicology
Klangfarbenmelodie
Capriccio
Sonatina
38. Pertains to tone or tones.
Tonal
Ligature
Tune
Unison
39. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
System
Scale
Concerto
Theme
40. A set of seven musicians who perform a composition written for seven parts.
Part
Fugue
Staccato
Septet
41. The unit of musical rhythm.
Beat
Tempo
String Quartet
Capriccio
42. Harsh - discordant - and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
Portamento
Round
Dissonance
Renaissance
43. The intonation - pitch - and modulation of a composition expressing the meaning - feeling - or attitude of the music.
Tone
Exposition
Clavier
Drone
44. A group singing in unison.
Musicology
Coda
Chorus
Overture
45. A rhythmic succession of musical tones - a melody for instruments and voices.
Tune
Quartet
Root
Septet
46. The keyboard of a stringed instrument.
Quartet
Clavier
Sonata form
Interlude
47. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1800's and lasted about sixty years. There was a strong regard for order and balance.
Sonata form
Introduction
Chamber music
Classicism
48. The interval between two notes. Two whole tones and one semitone make up the distance between the two notes.
Fourth
Development
Adagio
Quartet
49. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Overture
Chorale
Whole-tone scale
Round
50. A melodic or - sometimes a harmonic idea presented in a musical form.
Key
Classical
Theme
Orchestra